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There are two or three people commenting that in this post and simply not elaborating. It's ridiculous.



Because the incident should be fresh and impactful enough to remember, from my point of view it almost reach levels as bad as Sourceforge adware injection in open source software installers.

For a recap for people who weren't in the industry or have short memory.

Kite took ownership of some popular code editor plugins and injected some adware/tracking code.





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